Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

About Land.com:

CoStar is the owner of Land.com, LandWatch, Land and Farm, and AcreValue and is the leading operator of online marketplaces that support the sale and purchase of farms, ranches, country homes, and rural land. Our customers include real-estate brokers, real-estate agents, owners, and investors who need internet listing services and information to help them sell/purchase properties and track competitive trends.

About the Role:

The Land team is seeking a full-time Lead Software Engineer to architect and maintain new systems, and drive improvements to existing systems and processes.  As an ideal candidate, you will have multiple years of experience developing and maintaining highly performant web applications that will be beneficial in driving the growth of our Land business unit.  To be successful in this role you must be a problem-solving, collaborative person with deep technical skills, and the ability to work in a secure, performant, enterprise-scale environment.

This position is located in Austin, TX and offers a schedule of Monday to Thursday in the office and the option to work from home on Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve existing systems
• Develop and maintain database design and SQL scripts
• Work in partnership with Product and Technology leadership to deeply understand a project’s complex functional requirements and drive implementation of appropriate technical solutions
• Analyze technical requirements to design/improve architecture, systems, services, and components to meet functional, performance and availability requirements.
• Apply software design patterns, sound quality management methods, tools, and techniques to create and support defect-free application software that meets the needs of the organization with high reusability and maintainability
• Drive and evangelize architectural principles and guidelines to ensure high quality, consistent results across teams.
• Leverage AI-Assisted development tool to accelerate implementation, refactoring, and test creation, while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability through strong engineering judgment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.
• 8+ years of development experience in production environment
• Expert-level knowledge of systems using C#, .NET Development
• Expert-level knowledge and experience using SQL
• Experience with software testing (Unit, Integration, Functional, Performance)
• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g. Microsoft CoPilot or similar) to improve developer productivity
• Ability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas within and across teams
• Ability to work well with other developers and management
• Ability to juggle priorities and work with minimal supervision or assistance to complete tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Visual Studio, SSMS, and Azure DevOps or Git
• Experience with AWS and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
• Experience architecting systems using C#, .NET Development
• Experience establishing software development best practices, including standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing and operations.

What’s in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups    
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. 

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing